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Teachers and Tutors of ESL Adult Learners and a Phonemic, Web Based Instructional Approach Preproposal

and phonological similarity of verbal items in memorized sequences" (Mueller, et al., 2003; p. 1353). The phonological-loop model...

Politics, Religion, and Language of South America

II. Language South America was settled largely by European immigrants who spoke Spanish and Portuguese, for the most part (Farn...

Women and Men, Language, and Difference Implications

be easier to deal with if work was the only place where one ran into this problem, but too often, it occurs at home. Many husband...

Labor Force Diversity

is one of great diversity. While there has been much controversy in recent years about immigration in this country, the reality i...

U.S. Navy Admiral Grace Brewster Murray Hopper

technology that would be more accessible to everyone through a common language" (OHanlon, 2001)....

ESL Secondary Student Prejudice and Stereotype Awareness Through Wolf Biermann and Bob Dylan

stehst du; when translated, it means: Soldier, soldier, the world is young Soldier soldier, as young as you The world has a deep j...

The Language of Security

to life and limb, in the case of security for an organisations, while this may be a physical threat, it may also be a threat in t...

'The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down' And 'The Great Mortality' - How People React To Catastrophe

no matter how harsh - are based within the foundation being forced to cope with unmitigated stress, fear and anger. Another simil...

Connections between Images and Characters

of us, but that we have to be very careful" (Valenzuela, 2007), we know immediately that the killing in the story is going to be d...

Zero Tolerance Policies - Do They Work?

in the Gun-Free School Act (McAndrews, 2001; McCune, 2000). McAndrews (2001) reported that policies were passed by state legislat...

Reading and Decoding in Early Childhood Education

used in the context of the classroom. The information gleaned should be such that a teacher should be able to utilize it in the co...

Faith-Based Counseling

anxiety or address a family problem, they may prefer faith-based counseling simply because its in a language that fits them and th...

The History Of The Spanish Language

for practical matters, in order to trade and communicate. This take u was a slow progression and started the influences of modern ...

CALLA/ESL Instruction

to understand than language that is lacking such support that contains new and/or difficult information (Chamot and OMalley, 1996)...

Historical Changes in the English Language

our purposes, its important to note that "... the Latin tongue did not replace Brittonic as the language of the general population...

Oral Language & Lessons Plans

twice-weekly in 15-minute sessions. The adult reading the books asked both literal and inferential questions of the children using...

Informal Time Terms

of vague terms, they clearly have a place in it. But what about terms that are ambiguous? As noted, the complexity of language su...

Erik Erikson: Biography and Theory

on the processes of becoming" (Grinker, 2001, p. 105). II. EIGHT STAGES THEORY People are not merely empty vessels waiting...

Mardi Gras and Effects on the New Orleans Economy

quickly become important ("The History of Mardi Gras," 2007). Some call it Fat Tuesday, which is what the term Mardi Gras actually...

The Importance of ESL in the International School Curriculum

meet the demands that society dishes out, and cultural demands as well. This is becoming increasingly more significant as the worl...

Language & Critical Thinking

Critical thinking has been defined as "the ability to construct and/or extrapolate abstract meaning in and from a variety of setti...

How Alaskan Boarding Schools Hurt the Natives

linguistics for these groups? The answer seems to be a resounding yes. Stories come from thee facilities and concern children bein...

The Debate over Bilingualism

third report was a meta-analysis of the subject matter; done by a non-education professional it is assumed to be relatively free f...

Studies on Kinesics

words, students of kinesics "search for a grammar of body movements" as, in the words of Birdwhistell, "all meaningful [body] moti...

Reading Instruction

In two and a half pages this paper assesses the benefits of both phonics and whole language teaching with regards to reading instr...

'Song of Myself,' 'When I Read the Book,' and 'One's Self I Sing' by Walt Whitman

With the plain-speaking simplicity that was his trademark, Whitman constructed this poem in such a rhythmic way that it could be s...

Setting and Language of 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

and venture onto "a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow pat...

Nabokov & Use of Language

that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...

Summary of “Listening in the Native and Second/Foreign Language: Toward an Integration of Research”

human understanding, theorists such as Aristotle and Saint Augustine also considered the same subject as did Hobbes and the Port R...

Style and Language of The Great Railway Car by Paul Theroux and Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Compared

the sample passage from Chapter X is a good example of the formal style and language. In regards to formal language, the...